Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads – Out of Standard – This is the end???
(posted by Isadora)
“This is the end????
From time to time we fall in love with a great story, but the ending just doesn’t satisfy us.
Your challenge: create a poem that rewrites an ending that let you down. It could be from a book, song, video game, TV show, movie, or any other medium. Just give us the ending you would have wanted. “
Nicknamed Pearl, a girl
from Texas with a voice
that pleaded, cried, wailed
blues. Drugs drenched
the music world; young
people were dying. She
was twenty-seven, strong-
willed, and did not succumb.
Still tours with her famous
boa wrapped ’round her neck,
and her Southern Comfort
no longer comes from a bottle.
Oh, if only…
I was digging some Janis just this morning. What a loss.
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Tremendous.
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I wonder if she shares her Southern Comfort with other rock and blues heroes.
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Without a doubt!
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A tragic example of many who burned out too young…
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Many at age 27.
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If only Janis had hung around long enough to find the comforts out of the bottle. Maybe she saw they weren’t loud and proud enough for her wounds.
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I think she always saw herself as the shunned girl who would never have friends.
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Will never be another!
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Not for me.
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Awe, I love that you wrote Janis a happier ending! Thanks for posting to the out of standard!
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Thanks, Isadora! This was a wonderful prompt.
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Southern comfort – the kind that doesn’t leave a hangover. Yes, loved this!
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Thanks, Margaret!
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